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For the last six months British and US intelligence has been trying to identify Jihadi John, the man who featured in several videos produced by ISIL showing the beheading of a number of men. It is now widely believed that he … More

Geneen Roth lost a thousand pounds before she realised that her obsession with food was masking a deep emptiness that only getting in touch with her deepest self could heal. For more than 30 years Geneen, author of the best s… More

Compulsory military training for young men began not long after Federation in Australia and various systems operated on and off throughout much of the twentieth century. Although such schemes were usually politically popular,… More

To celebrate International Women's Day, we meet the international singing star, women's rights activist and Buddhist nun, Ani Choying Drolma. Born and raised within sight of the great Buddhist stupa of Boudhanath in Kathmandu… More

The book Merchants of Doubt is now a film. In Merchants of Doubt, historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway explain how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists, with extensive political connections, ran effective campaigns… More

The hockey stick graph shows northern hemisphere temperature beginning to rise coinciding with the industrial revolution. The graph became an icon in the climate change debate shortly after 2000. The graph was attacked. Since… More

The Abrolhos Islands are found about 70Km off the Western Australian coast near Geraldton. There are 120 islands which support a rock lobster fishery. There is abundant coral and a large diversity of plants and animals. Envir… More

Were eating far too much red meat. Thats all meat other than chicken and fish. High consumption brings with it increased risk for a range of cancers particularly bowel cancer. The World Cancer Research Fund and the Australian… More

The river Ganges, considered by Indians to be the responsibility of the gods, is so polluted that questions are being asked about its future. Now Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invested millions of dollars to clean it up. J… More

Gertrude Bell was a British historian and linguist, a mountaineer and intrepid adventurer, as well as a diplomat and self-acclaimed King maker in a region where western women were few and far between, in the early years of th… More

On the Wider Web

In his vastness and mobility, G.K. Chesterton continues to elude definition: He was a Catholic convert and an oracular man of letters, a pneumatic cultural presence, an aphorist with the production rate of a pulp novelist. Poetry, criticism, fiction, biography, columns, public debate - the phenomenon known to early-20th-century newspaper readers as "GKC" was half cornucopia, half content mill.

Unfortunately, coverage of this debate by the mass media is typically one-sided and emotive. Viewers, listeners, and readers are subjected to a succession of heart-rending human interest stories of sick or paralysed people who want assisted suicide. As the saying goes, "If it bleeds, it leads." These stories seem designed not only to tug on public emotion, but to tug it in one direction: toward legalization. To the extent that opposing views are aired at all, they are often caricatured as "religious" - despite the fact that legalization has long been opposed by secular bodies like the World Medical Association.

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